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Monday, January 19, 2015

Guy Greetings for a Shoe Box Swap

A team of us are doing a shoebox swap tonight using the new stamp sets from the 2015 Occasions Catalogue! A shoebox swap is where each person attending designs a card using the stamp set that they sign up for and put together the paper and supplies needed for everyone else at the swap to make the card and put them all in a shoebox, with the sample. The shoeboxes are passed from person to person and you put together one card from each shoebox and go home with quite a few samples to use!

It might not be a surprise to you to learn that I chose Guy Greetings as my stamp set, but after having made a few different designs using this set, I suddenly had a hard time coming up with an original design. I looked around for some inspiration, and suddenly found it in the shape of the latest Pals Paper Arts Challenge Sketch:

I could just see the collection of old hats in that little shape in the middle of the card! Thank you Kerry Willard Bray and Pals Paper Arts!

The three little flags were punched using the Banner Punch from 3 different designs of Adventure Bound DSP. The one in the middle is longer than the punched image and so I cut a strip of DSP to just slightly less than 5/8" in width and passed one end from the top of the punch through the flag end of the punch. When I pressed the punch only the flag end was punched out and the other end could be kept longer and trimmed to the length wanted.

The shape in the middle is die cut using one of the Apothecary Accents Framelits. I cut one on the Sahara Sand cardstock that had the images heat embossed and stamped, and one from Early Espresso cardstock. I trimmed off the knobs on the ends of the Early Espresso shape and cut it in half to glue onto the Sahara Sand shape, extending beyond the top and bottom about 1/4" to make a matte for it.

When you attach the flags to the image panel, add the longest in the middle first then add the two shorter ones very slightly behind it on either side.

Finish it off with two Early Espresso Candy Dots from the Neutrals Collection and mount the whole thing on an Early Espresso Base.

Thanks for dropping by my blog today. I'll be back tomorrow with another Sheltering Tree Design. Here's a sneak peek:

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I'm an avid crafter and a Stampin' Up! demonstrator in Canada located in the sunny Okanagan Valley! I have a hubby and three grown girls and six grandkids, four loveable boys and two adorable girls. Two cats complete the household as well as rule it! I really should get more exercise, but everytime the urge hits, I head to the craft room until it passes!

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